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Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to pay additional compensation to people impacted by the collapse of Equitable Life.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
8 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to pay additional compensation to people impacted by the collapse of Equitable Life.

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has been fully wound down and closed since 2016 and there are no plans to reopen any decisions relating to the Payment Scheme or review the £1.5 billion funding allocation previously made to it. Further guidance on the st...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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